The 2024 Presidential Debate

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The 2024 Presidential Debate

During last night’s debate, both candidates talked about their economic ideas, but neither laid out a plan for how they would pay for their proposals or how to tackle our $35 trillion national debt.

With interest costs on the debt on track to reach historic highs over the next decade, America’s fiscal future is a critical issue for our next president. As interest rises, it crowds out important public and private investments that can fuel economic growth. We already spend more on interest than on Medicaid or veterans’ benefits, and this fiscal year was the first in which interest costs surpassed what we spent on defense. Follow link to read more from The Peter G. Peterson Foundation. https://bit.ly/3zgEEsU

 

Navigating Federal Retirement Questions

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Navigating Federal Retirement Questions

 Source: FEDweek Staff

If your spouse is a federal employee or retiree as well, are you sure that you are that well prepared, should your spouse die first and you become the survivor?

 A long-time acquaintance reached out recently asking for help with some questions about federal retirement. As it turned out, there were a lot of questions.

The federal retiree husband of a relative had just died and when his widow started looking into potential benefits due to her, she quickly found herself at sea. She reached out to him as someone who “knows a little about the government” — there seems to be one with that designation in every family — because his job involved more contacts with more government agencies than most people experience. Follow link to read more. https://bit.ly/3z1m9IV